EPISODE · Oct 1, 2025 · 32 MIN
Civil Discourse in the Modern Era: Stop Being an Etiquette Peasant
from The Salty Goddess · host The Salty Goddess
Salty Goddess Anne Margaret Perry takes you on a journey from Victorian dinner tables to modern-day Facebook flame wars. Once upon a time, politics, religion, and money were off-limits for polite company. Now? We’re practically ready to throw hands over a meme. It's time to retire the fucking etiquette peasantry. Elevate your In this unapologetically audacious episode, Anne Margaret breaks down: Why etiquette once banned divisive topics, and what that meant for social harmony. How America’s pendulum swing took us from silence to screaming. The rise of “color commentator” newscasters and corporate-driven spin. Why civility is NOT complicity, and silence isn’t the answer either. The case for micro-courtesies: holding doors, saying thank you, listening before attacking. This isn’t about sugarcoating or silencing, it’s about reclaiming the lost art of civil disagreement without nuking friendships, dinner parties, or society itself. If you’re tired of the chaos, craving common courtesy, and ready to chase character instead of clout, this is your guilty-pleasure wake-up call. #StaySalty #CivilityNotSilence #MicroCourtesies
What this episode covers
In this week’s Salty Goddess Podcast, Anne Margaret Perry tackles the death of common courtesy and the chaos that’s replaced it. Drawing on Victorian and mid-century etiquette, she highlights how society once strategically avoided divisive topics at social gatherings, not out of repression, but to maintain harmony. She contrasts this with today’s climate of oversharing, clout-chasing, and “news as performance,” where anchors act more like John Madden than Walter Cronkite. Anne Margaret argues that while silence can look like complicity, endless screaming debates solve nothing. Instead, she calls for micro-courtesies, everyday acts of respect and civility, that allow us to disagree without dehumanizing each other. From holding the door to refusing to let politics blow up friendships, she lays out a case for reclaiming basic decency without giving up free speech.
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